On 23 Nov 2001 02:29:42PM +0800, Migs Paraz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > actually the Passport analogy is not entirely correct, since Microsoft's > vision for Passport is to act as a central auth system for its partners that > are not necessarily under the same administration.
In that case I think the school's going to be okay with authing against a central server instead of having a central server tell them that they're authed... <shrug> I don't know. I'm trying to figure out some other thorny design issues right now. Help! =) See, I'm playing around with the idea of writing a course web page system, as that's been an open project for forever. Ateneo's going to get Blackboard sometime soon, but so far it hasn't yet materialized. Besides, it's a fun exercise. So many questions! =) For example, user accounts. Should I make student accounts different from teacher accounts, or should I give everyone a generic account and let courses have their own ACLs saying who has teacher access and student access? The latter is more flexible, but might be harder to administer. The former can probably take advantage of our LDAP directory, but... hmm... I can just have different entry points, I suppose. What about templates and personalization? Departments and teachers want their own 'look', but things also need to be consistent. Maybe I could have a set of templates that give teachers a choice. I suck at design, but we have really cool multimedia people here. =) Does anyone know the e-mail addresses of the people at UP who wrote a course web page system? I'd like to get in touch with them, but the article I read didn't mention any addresses, although it did say they used open source technologies. Yay! =) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3 BS CS geek =) Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) tel: 63(2) 426-6001 loc 5925 BOFH excuse #422: Someone else stole your IP address, call the Internet detectives! _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
